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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-07-04

NYM @ ATL

Home plate: Alfonso Márquez

“Tonight's zone had a rooting interest.”

B-
Umpire Grade
92.0% accurate
1.6
Run Favor
runs, NYM
0
ABS Overturns
of 4 reviewed

What this shows — how Alfonso Márquez called the 174 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 160 right. Below, only his misses are plotted, alongside every pitch the ABS (Automated Ball-Strike System) reviewed on a challenge.

The zone, as he called it

Challenge 1: Joey Bart — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).1Challenge 2: Francisco Alvarez — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).2Challenge 3: Mark Vientos — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).3Challenge 4: Jorge Mateo — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).4
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld

The calls that moved the game

  1. 1+0.39▲6 · 2-2 strike called ball
    Eric Wagaman vs Chris Sale
  2. 2+0.28▲2 · 1-2 strike called ball
    Eric Wagaman vs Chris Sale
  3. 3+0.28▲6 · 1-2 strike called ball· challenged
    Mark Vientos vs Chris Sale

Run impact from the count run-value table: a missed strike three is worth far more than one on 3-0.

ABS — the Automated Ball-Strike System

4 pitches went to the robots · 0 overturned (ump overruled) · 4 upheld (ump confirmed). This is Hawkeye ground truth, no model involved.

  1. 1Joey Bart — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
  2. 2Francisco Alvarez — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
  3. 3Mark Vientos — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
  4. 4Jorge Mateo — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.

Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 3 of 4 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.